School was uneventful. We didn’t discuss any lessons today but every single teacher kept explaining the grading system and making us copy it in our notebooks and asking our parents to sign it. We did that every hour and pretty soon it got quite boring cos it’s all the same. 30% for the quarterly exams and around 20% for recitation. The remaining 50% varies from subject to subject. Why do they want a parent’s signature for that? I feel like I’m back in first grade. [read more?]